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Kingsley Garden

Kingsley Garden from directly overhead

Kingsley Garden is a garden in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Mount Cornelia stands 15 m to the southeast, 0.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Kingsley Plantation, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. A1A OCEAN ISLANDS TRAIL (OBS) passes 1.4 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
National Park Service
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates30.43924, -81.43794
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions: 47
  • Kingsley Plantation: 0.0 mi
  • Monty's Marina Deep-Sea Fishing: 3.4 mi
  • Frog Hopper: 10.6 mi
  • Batting Cages: 10.6 mi
  • Area 51 Laser Tag: 10.6 mi
Museums: 19
Artworks: 16
Historic sites: 11
Cliffs: 9
Gardens: 8
  • Community Garden: 11.1 mi
  • Asian Bamboo Garden: 12.6 mi
  • Sea Turtle Maze: 15.2 mi
  • Lower Olmsted Garden: 16.6 mi
  • Upper Olmsted Garden: 16.6 mi
Beaches: 5
Nature reserves: 5
  • Betz-Tiger Point Preserve: 5.0 mi
  • Cradle Creek Preserve: 11.4 mi
  • Pablo Creek Perserve: 14.2 mi
  • Seaton Creek Preserve: 14.9 mi
  • Fort Clinch State Park: 17.1 mi
Peaks: 4
  • Mount Cornelia: 0.8 mi
  • Indian Mound: 5.1 mi
  • Round Top: 5.2 mi
  • McClure Hill: 16.8 mi
Rest areas: 3
Springs: 1
  • Pottsburg Spring: 13.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kingsley Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount CorneliaSE 126°15 m0.8 mi
McClure HillN 358°10 m16.8 mi
Round TopWSW 254°8 m5.2 mi
Indian MoundS 171°3 m5.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3019:0619:38
June solstice06:2519:5620:32
September equinox07:1518:5219:24
December solstice07:1916:5417:30

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555863697580838280736558
Precip in2.92.63.12.53.06.65.46.06.45.02.32.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mayport Pilot STN, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Northern Cardinal70 obs
  • Carolina Chickadee56 obs
  • Indian Peafowl55 obs
  • Tufted Titmouse54 obs
  • Eastern Bluebird51 obs
  • Osprey48 obs
  • Laughing Gull45 obs
  • House Finch39 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/684048497

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